Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
EVELYN WAUGHHer heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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